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[quote=Anonymous]Your LSAT is the place to ask. As an LSAT rep, I got some of the gory details of those drills after the Sandy Hook shooting. They are careful not to do "active shooter pretend games" with kids but the procedures definitely involve that scenario. Not sure how many of the details would be useful to share with the public. I imagine that some details would be confidential for tactical reasons. But here is an example: Your school (DCPS anyway) has colored cards (red, yellow, green) in classrooms, which teachers/staff can use to stick under/out the door to communicate if barricaded. Green would mean something like "I have all of my kids accounted for in this room". As much as you'd eventually have to rely on the caregiver's instincts to do what is necessary, it is really is highly routinized, sadly.
Following the earthquake in DC, safety procedures were updated because schools apparently didn't react then in the right way. Earthquakes just weren't on DC's radar then as a possible scenario.[/quote]

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